Bittorrent plugin for Firebird?

ronincyberpunk · Post by **ronincyberpunk** » November 3rd, 2003, 8:23 am

Currently I have Bittorrent installed but to use it I have to download the torrent file and then run it to activate bittorrent. Is there a plugin or a how-to to get Bittorrent to work with FB?

Thanks

quanta · Post by **quanta** » November 3rd, 2003, 9:44 am

It should just work. Methinks that the server you are downloading torrents from have their MIME types incorrectly set; ergo, FB thinks it is ASCII text instead of "application/x-bittorrent".

Thumper · Post by **Thumper** » November 3rd, 2003, 2:42 pm

Yep. The BitTorrent howto on the official site clearly states what has to be done to get torrents to work correctly. The problem is that the majority of torrent link sites are run by IE-using warez kids.

- Chris

savedlatin · Post by **savedlatin** » November 3rd, 2003, 7:52 pm

Yeah, except the ones using Bittorrent to distribute linux dists.

javyn · Post by **javyn** » November 3rd, 2003, 11:07 pm

i use bit torrent and the only difference i've noticed from ie, is when i click on a torrent, the firebird download window pops up with what to do with the torrent file. "open with bit torrent" is already selected for you, just click OK, and the bit torrent save as window will then pop up like normal.

Brian Puccio · Post by **Brian Puccio** » November 4th, 2003, 12:01 am

savedlatin wrote:Yeah, except the ones using Bittorrent to distribute linux dists.

I now have spilled my coffee on my keyboard :lol:

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » November 13th, 2003, 12:59 am

I still like the idea of a bittorrent plug-in though. Especially if it was integrated well and had features such as having files appear in the download sidebar, and using my default download directory etc.

Hendikins · Post by **Hendikins** » November 13th, 2003, 2:50 am

Woodwizzle wrote:I still like the idea of a bittorrent plug-in though.

Such a plugin still wouldn't work with files served as text/plain. I wish that they'd fix forcecontenttype

Dave88 · Post by **Dave88** » November 13th, 2003, 3:21 am

I too use Bittorrent with Firebird and it works fine for me just select open with "Bittorrent default" and it will load the torrent into the client automatically.

I use the ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client] and during install it gives the option to "make default" so it associates with torrent files which is I guess the reason why it works with firebird and it's "open with" function.

http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » November 13th, 2003, 3:43 am

All bittorrent clients have this functionality.

I personally would also like to see (i guess you could call it) native bittorrent support in firebird, even if it was just an extension. It would appear as if you were downloading a normal file, exept it would be doing everything bittorrent does as well.

javyn · Post by **javyn** » November 13th, 2003, 6:23 am

strange, but some torrents do not after all work with FB but do with IE. I doubt this is a prob w/ FB though, probably a screwup on the torrent page.